Author: Carma Henry

      Norfolk State and Delaware State both saw their football crowds swell in 2025 under DeSean Jackson and Michael Vick.

       The latest set of assistant hires is headlined by the expected additions of Clay Jennings as defensive coordinator and D.J. Boldin as offensive coordinator, according to ESPN college football writer Adam Rittenberg.

    Vick had spent the past year away from television to pursue a new challenge: coaching college football. Serving as the head coach at Norfolk State, he embraced the difficult but rewarding transition from the broadcast studio to the sidelines.

       South Carolina State will go into the 2026 season as the defending HBCU national champions thanks to their Celebration Bowl win, and early in the season, they will be visited by a CIAA team.

     Dr. Richard Beckford, the pioneering Director of Bands at Florida Memorial University who established the institution’s ROAR Marching Band, has died following complications from a longstanding illness. The university announced his passing Dec. 26, sparking a wave of tributes from the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) band community honoring his legacy of musical precision, show design, and student mentorship.

Florida A&M University (FAMU) Board of Trustees approved the hiring of Quinn Fordham Gray, Sr., as the program’s 20th head football coach, turning to a proven winner whose rapid rise as a college head coach has brought him back to where his football journey first began.

     Oliver, a 1984 FAMU graduate, was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame, part of a class that includes the recently retired Lee Corso and the late Greg Gumbel.

 As Christmas approaches, most of us recognize it as a season meant for reflection, grace, and goodwill. Yet, I find myself deeply troubled by what I see unfolding across Broward County. Instead of unity, we are witnessing hurt, mudslinging, character attacks and too often this is coming from Black political candidates against one another. That alone should give us pause. If so called “LEADERS” are engaged in this sordid behavior, what will the people do?

 BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In a Capitol Building that still has statues in honor of Jefferson Davis, Barbara Rose Johns will be on the first floor of the U.S. Capitol in the same position the Lee statue formerly occupied. The Johns statue now joins Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune and Rosa Parks as one of four Black women honored in the U.S. Capitol in statue form.

The Black Press of America is mourning the loss of a giant.